- What is the best e-commerce platform?
Is it Shopify or WooCommerce?
I'm going to show you which one I recommend that you use
especially if it's your first store.
Let's go
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Hey guys, Sam here from keyCommerce.com
and today I'm going to talk about
the best e-commerce platform that I recommend
and I use for all my stores.
Okay guys the number one e-commerce platform I recommend
is Shopify.
Check the link in the description to Shopify
so you can get a free trial.
I use Shopify for all my stores and 95% of the other stores
that I work with are on Shopify.
Why?
It's so easy to set up,
seriously you have all these free templates,
you can set up your store within an hour
and then you can get your first sale today.
It comes with everything you need,
a CRM for uploading your products, keeps track of orders,
charging customers with the Shopify payment processor,
designing the website with their customizer.
It sends emails to customers about their orders.
Seriously, it comes with everything you need
to start selling today.
Yep, you can also get a ton of other apps
and plugins for the store
but even just what it comes with is enough to get started.
It also integrates so well with other e-commerce software.
This is huge, if you are using any other software
like gorgias for your live chat,
Stamped that I owe for your reviews,
Xero for your accounting,
they all play really nice with Shopify.
There's literally thousands of other apps
that also are amazing for what they do
and they all play well with Shopify.
I've made a video on the top Shopify apps that I recommend,
go check that out, I'll leave a link in the description.
Shopify is also very affordable,
it only costs $29 per month which is insanely cheap
for what you get.
It saved me literally hundreds of hours of time
with Shopify that I would've had to spend
if I was on a WooCommerce store
and trying to do a lot of different things by myself.
Holy Moly man!
Another big thing is that everyone else uses it.
Okay, I never recommend things
just because everyone uses it but in this case,
it's gonna make it so much easier
for you to do other parts of your business.
Why?
Well, hiring a virtual assistant
which is a really important step for your store
is gonna be so much easier because the majority
of virtual assistants have worked with Shopify,
so you won't need to retrain them on how to use Shopify,
like how to edit the website,
how to add new products to your store,
how to fulfill orders or anything else like that.
And just like what I said about integrations,
it means that all these other apps
and all these other software works really well with Shopify,
so, if you are looking at any software,
you can usually bet that it plays well with Shopify.
Okay, so what about the negatives for Shopify?
Well, if you want some more advanced features,
you're going to have to upgrade to the advanced plan.
Honestly, if you're not doing seven figures a year
with your store,
I wouldn't even think about going up to this plan,
just focus on getting your store up,
solving a problem for your customers
and getting those first sales.
With the advanced Shopify TA,
you can customize the checkout process much more
as well as make your store international.
This is incredibly powerful, but honestly you don't need it
and it's not worth the cost
until you're really making a lot of money with your store.
Okay guys you can really say that I've really liked Shopify,
I think it's a fantastic platform,
I'll leave a link in the description, go check it out,
If you don't have it already,
get the free trial and build your store.
Okay guys, the next platform that I recommend
is WooCommerce.
This is what I recommend after Shopify,
it does require a bit more technical knowledge
to operate than Shopify but you can save a little bit
of money going this route.
My second e-comm store was actually on WooCommerce.
It was really great for me personally
because I'd already built several WordPress websites before
but it was a much more technical process
to build a WooCommerce store,
so I don't recommend this for beginners.
Honestly, Shopify does everything
and does it much better in my opinion,
you'll save hours of time
and it's just gonna cost a little bit extra
and keep in mind that with WooCommerce
and your WordPress store,
you're going to have to pay for hosting anyway,
so the extra cost of Shopify isn't that much in comparison.
For hosting for your WordPress/WooCommerce store,
I do recommend Kinsta,
I use it for my own WordPress sites
and it's really really fast running WordPress.
I'll leave a link in the description to Kinsta
so go check them out.
Something else I haven't talked about is the benefit
of WooCommerce is that you have so much more customization
of this store on a deeper level.
You can really go wild making that store exactly
how you want it.
I honestly don't recommend WooCommerce for your first store
unless you already have a WordPress blog or website
and you wanna include a store on that website.
Even if you do this,
I recommend creating a sub domain for that blog,
that WordPress website and then putting Shopify
on the sub domain as store dot your website.com.
It's gonna save you a lot of headaches
but if you're already comfortable with WooCommerce
then please go ahead.
Okay guys, like I said, I really recommend using Shopify
for your first e-commerce store,
I've worked with dozens of different stores
on Shopify and the ones that are on WooCommerce,
they're already thinking about moving their store over
to Shopify in the next couple of months,
I'll put some links in the description to Shopify,
WooCommerce, Kinsta and anything else I've recommended
in this video.
Thanks so much for watching guys
and if this video was helpful, please give it a thumbs up
and ask any questions in the comments below,
also feel free to check out my channel,
I make a lot of videos, tutorials on e-commerce
and consider subscribing to learn more
as you grow your store alongside me.
Thanks so much for watching guys
and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye for now.
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